"Duchamp's Telegram is the latest brilliant installment in the author's lifelong project of reinterpreting Duchamp for contemporary thought. It would be impossible to summarize in a few lines de Duve's arguments on behalf of Duchamp's epochal significance, but suffice it to say that the freshness and originality of his claims about what he calls the Art-in-General system are massively in evidence throughout his text. And as always de Duve's writing is marked by a sense of his delight in the play of his ideas, a quality that makes reading him a rare pleasure."–Michael Fried, author of 'French Suite: A Book of Essays'